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...Phnom Penh hotel. According to officials, the group allegedly set up an illegal telephone network and had made nearly $30,000 worth of essentially free international calls over the Internet since June 27. Police believe the group was contacting gullible investors overseas to pump bogus savings schemes and worthless stocks. Such scams have long plagued the country's Southeast Asian neighbors, but Cambodia may have an added attraction: its loosely regulated NGOs. The detained foreigners are suspected of using as cover the Cambodian Rehabilitation and Development Program (CRDP). According to the government, CRDP was registered in February...
...this reasoning, Weaver may as well dismiss any application of philosophy as worthless. Indeed, Weaver criticizes The Salient’s contributors for citing philosophy they may have picked up in a Moral Reasoning class...
...federal judge in New Jersey prepares to rule on a case that could reopen a floodgate of Holocaust - related litigation. The suit was filed by the children of Günther and Fritz Wertheim, who ran a thriving Jewish chain store before fleeing Nazi Germany. Believing their assets worthless, they sold to a German businessman in 1951 for $18,400. In doing so, they lost prized Berlin real estate, according to the $500 million suit against KarstadtQuelle, Germany's biggest retailer, which now owns the property. The case threatens a 1999 accord designed to settle all Holocaust-related claims against...
...unfortunate placed inside, was clearly worn from use. It lay on its side within view of Uday's first-floor offices in the soccer association. It was brought to TIME's attention by looters: they had stripped the site of anything of value but thought the iron maiden worthless. --By Aparisim Ghosh
...most popular tourist spot in the valley is an incongruous architectural folly known as Scottys Castle. It's named after Walter Scott, a flamboyant prospector and veteran of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, who conned a millionaire Chicago insurance executive named Albert Johnson into grubstaking a worthless mine. Johnson may have been snookered, but he was soon won over by the beauty and restorative qualities of the valley; the dry heat and clean air worked wonders with his asthma. In the late 1920s Johnson built a $2 million Spanish Colonial "vacation" hacienda with a lovely Gothic music room, handmade...